RHSA-2025:3297 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.23 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.23. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:3299

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• grub2: net: Out-of-bounds write in grub_net_search_config_file()

(CVE-2025-0624)

• libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2

(CVE-2025-24928)

• cri-o: Checkpoint restore can be triggered from different namespaces

(CVE-2024-8676)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html/release_notes/

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha values for the release are as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7e8b4557c0a15765440c543ab50cd591bb94f0745c20564e5f15d57bf5f76a82

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:dd3148c37d8b4122f500ae1bb92e29e34d1cc3bfa634d5c53a9f8528945abd2d

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:04bf2f5c15417eeb7de26d95de767b62ce263d5cc99400cbaa4d370c5007ab18

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:b491dcca8f5a2fe177f628f661a23086497440cf9b994638b199b9299335741b

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2313842 - CVE-2024-8676 cri-o: Checkpoint restore can be triggered from different namespaces
• BZ - 2346112 - CVE-2025-0624 grub2: net: Out-of-bounds write in grub_net_search_config_file()
• BZ - 2346421 - CVE-2025-24928 libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2
• OCPBUGS-48439 - kubevirt hosted cluster with apiserver noderport using hostname ends without network policies
• OCPBUGS-49816 - [4.17] Non-admin users cannon read or modify UserDefinedNetwork CRs
• OCPBUGS-51117 - Openshift console overview shows "No alert found" when clicked on view details.
• OCPBUGS-52961 - openshift-install is not removing agent base temp folder
• OCPBUGS-53071 - fix missing Pod disruption reasons
• OCPBUGS-53086 - [release-4.17] Update the monitoring topic used by the console team
• OCPBUGS-53283 - The openshift-operator-lifecycle-manager and openshift-marketplace namespaces still use old pod-security.kubernetes.io/*-version v1.24 and v1.25 respectively
• OCPBUGS-53441 - oc describe machineconfignodes output has a typo in the message field

CVEs

• CVE-2024-8676
• CVE-2025-0624
• CVE-2025-24928
• CVE-2025-27144

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important